Thursday, December 06, 2012

Irish town's missing 60ft snowman returned in deflated state

Pranksters who stole the 60ft inflatable snowman
centrepiece of an Irish town's Christmas display have returned him in a deflated
state. The decoration, called Snowy, went missing from the roof of a building in
Wicklow Town last week. It was found on Tuesday morning with the air let out and a sign saying 'I'm
sorry'.

Martina Robinson from the town's chamber of commerce said they were delighted
to get him back. "The guards got a call that he had been left at a museum in
the town to Captain Halpin, a famous Wicklow man who captained the SS Great
Eastern which laid the telegraph cables from Europe to America," she said.

"They had got him over a three foot fence, along with his 8ft base and left
him there, it must have been quite an effort. We're delighted to have him back and have checked him over, he's not damaged
and is being re-inflated. She said that members of the chamber of commerce had invested heavily in the
Christmas display and that the police had been checking the inflatable snowman
for fingerprints.

"There was a lot of talk about what may have happened to him, someone with a
few drinks taken may have been involved I think," she said. "So there were supposed sightings of him all over the place. Some people were
even saying he had got lonely and went to the other side of the town to speak to
an inflatable ballerina we also have."